The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.
Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.
Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”
This was like the literal opposite of terrorism
It always is to someone, it’s usually just a matter of perspective.
The only people terrorized by this are health insurance CEOs, and they deserve to be terrorized considering how many people their rapacious, brutal profiteering have killed or crippled, both in a medical and financial sense.
I hope it terrifies them
Killing Thousands by refusing to pay for life saving medical procedures you can and are obligated to pay for: not terrorism
Popping the dude’s skull who did that with a $5 plastic gun: Terrorism
Sounds like stuff Russia and the middle east makes up to execute the good guys.
America: does the thing America always does
Americans: this is literally like the foreigners
I’m not American.
So if one or more CEO killing happens every day of a calendar year, will we stop giving a shit, like we do with school shootings?
Inquiring minds want to know.
That’s an interesting theory. I believe it needs vigorous testing.
That makes perfect sense.
- The murder of a CEO terrifies the bourgeoisie.
- The state serves the will of the bourgeoisie.
- The state charges the alleged murderer with terrorism.
It’s also the grand jury who had to return a true bill. They could have voted against the DAs charges.
All I know about grand juries is that they would indict a ham sandwich.
It’s sad, remember when terrorism meant flying a 747 into a sky scraper?
Nowadays whenever I see it in the headlines I just assume someone pissed off the wrong cop.
Wonder how many CEO’s were killed on 9/11 now
how many CEOs* were killed
Certainly not Larry Silverstein. He had a dermatologist appointment!
It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can’t prove the terrorism part of the charge.
Pardon Luigi!
Man they really are going to fuck him raw and with no lube, aren’t they?
Whatever it takes to try and stop the poor’s from fighting back
